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August 2008
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| 18bitcoin.org is registered | 19 | 20Email to Adam Back | 21 | 22Email to Wei Dai | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
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Events in August 2008
Monday 18 August6651 days ago
bitcoin.org is registered
The domain bitcoin.org was registered, about ten weeks before the Bitcoin whitepaper was announced.
Milestones · 13:19 UTCSourceBitcoin.org, About bitcoin.org
Wednesday 20 August6649 days ago
Satoshi emails Adam Back
Satoshi Nakamoto emailed Adam Back, the author of the hashcash paper, to check how he was citing it, and shared a draft of the whitepaper, which he said "finds a new use for hash-based proof-of-work as a way to make e-cash work". Back replied the next day, pointing him to Wei Dai's b-money proposal. The emails became public in 2024, in the UK High Court case that found Craig Wright is not Satoshi.
MilestonesSourceCOPA v Wright [2024] EWHC 1198 (Ch), paras 23.2 and 661–665 (the emails of 20 and 21 August 2008)
Friday 22 August6647 days ago
Satoshi emails Wei Dai
After Adam Back pointed him to it, Satoshi Nakamoto emailed Wei Dai about Dai's b-money proposal. His paper, Satoshi wrote, "expands on your ideas into a complete working system", and he asked when b-money was published so he could cite it; the Bitcoin whitepaper lists it as its first reference. The draft he linked was then titled "Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party".
MilestonesSourceGwern Branwen, the emails between Wei Dai and Satoshi Nakamoto (Satoshi's first sent Friday, August 22, 2008; first quoted by The Sunday Times in March 2014)